Very nice setup, but dumb question; looks like a chin bar at top of cage, so why the need for a stand-alone one?

Actually bought the chin up bar first.At the time, Vertical Pulling was the most difficult for me to do with just dumbells. So seemed like a good idea. I never use it though because I have to go with Band Asisted for now, and I use the one on the cage. It feels mroe stable. As braced as the one on the wall is, at 280 lbs, eh, I'm holding off. It will be my go to bar though eventually. On that one, I dont have to bend my legs, the rack bar is too low, - which works well for putting bands under my feet and around the bar.

I think I've said before that I have some worries about the lat thing. The low pulley on mine keeps shaving bits of plastic coating from the cable, which I'm sure is going to screw things up eventually, and it just seems to be a consequence of how they designed it...

Still, looking good!

Ah, something to watch for.The whole rack flakes a lot [edit: no, just the safety rods actually]; but I will be more concerned about the coating off the cable than just some paint.Thanks for heads up again.

Last edited by Oscar_Actuary on Wed Oct 12, 2011 1:58 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Oscar, you have a bodysolid, right? I've never had a problem when I had the rack inside with paint flaking. As a matter of fact, when I moved my Dad in, I had to move the rack outside to the back porch, and while it started to flake a bit after about 6-7 months, not really very much. I hit it with WD 40 and naval jelly, and now throw a tarp over it. Seems to stand up just fine. BTW, I have a lat attachment to the rack that I got with the rack, looks identical to the one Mrs Santa is going to get you, and it works just fine. It will require a bit more depth room on your floor plan, but not a great deal.

Hey, Clint (I'll use the real name). One thing that can happen in the lat unit, it happened to me, is that when putting it together, you will have plastic sleeves fitting inside the steel post where the weight holding bar fits into the bottom steel post. My sleeves used to slip out, so I had to pound them in and add a bit of some goop to keep them on the posts. Also, because the plastic is where the sliding occurs, you may want to use some graphite inside the plastic sleeve to keep the action smooth.

then, take matters into my own handsyou know, i'd just like to give others the opportunity to make me happy

My wife did buy me some more big plates though.So that was very cool. She heard me saying I was about to outgrow the current number.

meanwhile, it's assisted chins/pulls ups, high pulls, and resistance band pulls downs and holds, ad inverted rows (which I consider more horizontal) The lat pull downs would give me a good progressive way towards real chins. Plus all the other cool moves I could add, or do better than I can without it.

yeah, the lat attachement came this week and I hooked it up and used it last night.

Even though it appears strong and the cables I'm sure are quite capable, I'm still a bit apprehensive. This will go away with time. The pulleys just seem so light. I need to go recall my simple machine math and determine if 100# is 100#?

by the way, it's awesome, and all I've done so far is underhand pull downs. There is a low bar too.

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